...accompanied by the typical loving/supportive YouTube comment exchange just below the video (as of tonight). I had actually barely heard SRV talk before, other than tiny snippets between songs on live videos. He seems like a pretty bright chap and plays beautifully in this.
Amazing SRV lesson/ramble...
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- KVRAF
- 5524 posts since 5 May, 2007 from Mars Colony
"You don’t expect much beyond a gaping, misspelled void when you stare into the cold dark place that is Internet comments."
---Salon on internet trolls attacking Cleveland kidnapping victim Amanda Berry
---Salon on internet trolls attacking Cleveland kidnapping victim Amanda Berry
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 5524 posts since 5 May, 2007 from Mars Colony
BTW, I heard or read in an interview that that guitar was previously owned by Christopher Cross (another Texas resident). 
Audio sync seems to get pretty whack on this video so sorry for that.
Audio sync seems to get pretty whack on this video so sorry for that.
"You don’t expect much beyond a gaping, misspelled void when you stare into the cold dark place that is Internet comments."
---Salon on internet trolls attacking Cleveland kidnapping victim Amanda Berry
---Salon on internet trolls attacking Cleveland kidnapping victim Amanda Berry
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- Rad Grandad
- 38041 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
being in central Texas from 1978-1981 had very few percs, but the music scene was amazing. I can tell you back then not only was he a great player and very intelligent but even after a long show he still wanted to talk about gear with a G.I. from New England for hours. Fortunately my wife knew I wasn't lying when I got home real late after seeing him back to back to nights in a row. I told her I met a cool guitarist that was going to be a super star and she knew I wasn't lying...but she also made some comment like "you say that about every guitar player you meet".
I did not know who he was at the time and at an age for me where seeing someone like him (5 years my senior) playing like that didn't do much for my confidence...however talking with him and hanging out with just him and my buddy sure did. I'm sure that night was a forgotten memory to him the next week but even though he wasn't that well known yet I'll never forget it or how cool to me he was. "Just be yourself and let it come naturally" (not verbatum) was his advice for a man in his early 20s wondering if I would ever get over that 'hump'
BTW about a year before that from Ray Henning's Heart of Texas Music I had bought a 72 Fender Tele Custom (black with the maple neck of course)
I did not know who he was at the time and at an age for me where seeing someone like him (5 years my senior) playing like that didn't do much for my confidence...however talking with him and hanging out with just him and my buddy sure did. I'm sure that night was a forgotten memory to him the next week but even though he wasn't that well known yet I'll never forget it or how cool to me he was. "Just be yourself and let it come naturally" (not verbatum) was his advice for a man in his early 20s wondering if I would ever get over that 'hump'
BTW about a year before that from Ray Henning's Heart of Texas Music I had bought a 72 Fender Tele Custom (black with the maple neck of course)
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